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Hissers: Big, Bold and Beautiful
Madagascar hissing cockroaches, aka hissers, are big, bold and beautiful. Just ask the...
Finn Jensen, 2 1/2, awaits the placement of a Madagascar hissing cockroach in his hand. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Connected! A Madagascar hissing cockroach and Finn Jensen meet. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Finn Jensen beams in delight as he holds the Madagascar hissing cockroach. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Finn Jensen's smile tells it all as he cradles the Madagascar hissing cockroach. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day: A Great Time to Talk Ants
How did you spend your Presidents' Day weekend? Well, if you were high school...
Got an ant question? From left are members of the Phil Ward ant lab at UC Davis: doctoral candidates Jill Oberski and Zachary Griebenow, and third-year doctoral student Ziv Lieberman. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis doctoral student Jill Oberski answers questions from Ziya Akmal of Los Angeles. Akmal made the 400-mile trip to talk to Professor Phil Ward and the Ward lab members at the 12th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis doctoral alumnus Brendon Boudinot (foreground), now an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Institute of Zoology and Evolutionary Research at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, answers questions at the UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day. Seated are doctoral candidate Jill Oberski and graduate student Ziv Lieberman of the Phil Ward lab. In back is doctoral candidate Zachary Griebenow. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Don't Miss the Nematodes at UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day
Don't miss the nematodes at the 12th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day on Saturday, Feb. 18....
Nematologist Shahid Siddique explains some of the display items during a previous UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
All Systems Are 'Go'--and 'Green'--for UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day
All systems are "go"--and "green"--for the 12th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day on...
Wearing of the Green--Ready to greet the crowd at the Bohart Museum of Entomology on Feb. 18 are (from left) Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology and a UC Davis distinguished professor of entomology, and entomology students and Bohart associates, Sol Wantz, president of the Entomology Club, and Allen Chew. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
'Hissing, Crawling, Perching and Rising' Part of UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day
Madagascar hissing cockroaches will hiss, walking sticks (aka stick insects) will crawl, raptors...
A Madagascar hissing cockroach is also called a "hisser." It hisses when it's disturbed, when it wants to attract a mate, and when it is fighting. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Peruvian stick insects are popular at the Bohart Museum of Entomology's petting zoo. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This is Jack, a red-tailed hawk ambassador at the California Raptor Center on Old Davis Road, UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Research microbiologist Kyria Boundy-Mills, curator of the Phaff Yeast Culture Collection, is ready to answer questions. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
